"I'm just so happy that this has become what it is, it's what it should be, and the Cipriano's deserve it. I'm just so happy, and I'm so touched by everybody's generosity," said April Tini, a neighbor of the Cipriano family.

"It's just amazing the community of Farmington Hills, Wixom, Walled Lake, Livonia, Royal Oak, all these people are coming together and sending people to help out tonight. So that says a lot about everybody that knew the family, and didn't even know the family," said Jenny Bermelin, a co-director of the event and Rose Cipriano's swim coach at the YMCA.

Tanner Cipriano, who police said called 911 from the family home during the attack, gave a heartwarming speech before the race.

"Let me say that I am immensely humbled by this event and the abundance of love that is represents," he said.